Primorye: co -founder PrimaMedia demands to recover 1 million rubles from a journalist who accused him of rape

In Vladivostok, on February 20, the first court session was held on the suit of the businessman and media manager Alexei Migunov on the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation against journalist Ekaterina Fedorova, who accused him of rape. For the dissemination of inaccurate information, he requires to recover 1 million rubles from the journalist, and from her two friends who made a repost of the message, 500 thousand rubles each. This was reported by Fedorova by the correspondent "Siberia. Reali".

"In connection with the spread of defamatory information, A.A. Migunov caused significant moral damage, significant moral suffering, which expressed in a sense of discomfort, humiliation, undeserved shame, anxiety and excitement, indignation, false accusations of a serious crime. Migunov was forced to take measures to restore his good name. The plaintiff is widely known and respected in A person, and the distribution of defamatory information against him entailed a great response and resonance among colleagues, acquaintances and friends, including federal media, ”the text of the lawsuit says.

Fedorova said that Migunova’s lawyer asked to make the trial closed as he concerns the personal life of people, but the court refused this to him.

In addition, the plaintiff’s lawyer confirmed that there was an intimate connection between his principal and Fedorova, but she spoke about what happened not as it really was. The journalist noted that this is the first time that Migunov recognized the presence of an intimate connection.

Fedorova and her lawyers also drew attention to the fact that the lawsuit was filed in the Pervorechensky district of Vladivostok, where one of the friends of Fedorova, who made a repost, lives. Neither Fedorov nor Migunov lives here, the apartment where they were located on October 13, 2018 is located in another area. “And if they had done repost in Khabarovsk, would I have to go there?” The journalist commented.

In early January, Fedorova said that in October 2018, Migunov raped her. The journalist explained the refusal to appeal to the police by the fact that Migunov is a "very influential person", and she is "very scary."

Migunov, in response to the accusations of Fedorova, said that "there was no rape and rape." He called Fedorova’s words "manipulation of facts, fiction and lies." Soon after the prosecution, Migunov announced the temporary suspension of his work in the PrimaMedia holding. In addition, he temporarily suspended his membership in all public organizations in which he consists.

Migunov filed a lawsuit to protect the honor, dignity and business reputation on Fedorov in mid -January. On the 21st, the court accepted the claim for production.

Ekaterina Fedorova leads the project "Feminologists", with the Siberia. Reali site collaborated from November 2018 to January 2019. He collaborated with the Help Foundation, the site "Such Affairs" and Life Models and Call of Culture.

Alexey Migunov - Deputy General Director and co -founder of the PrimaMedia media holding, whose departments work in 11 regions of Russia. In 2011-2016, Migunov was a member of the regional election commission . In 2014, he was a member of the Public Council of the Fund for Support for Independent Regional and Local Media "Pravda and Justice".

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